Majority Of Scots Oppose Trump

Photo by Michele Sandberg

Donald Trump's proposed golf course at Menie in Aberdeenshire has run into a bit of opposition in the past. If it's not local councillors refusing to bend over for him and do his bidding, then it's local residents refusing to sell him their houses.

If you recall, this is the Site of Special Scientific Interest which The Donald wants to build a golf course on. The local council heard the 'kerching' of money heading their way and decided to allow Trump to have everything he wanted.

There was just one problem - the people who lived there already.

Patrick Harvie is meeting one of those residents today, an 86-year-old woman who has been living with the threat of being turfed out of her home for a millionaire's playground.

The Donald is used to being feted wherever he goes, and I'm sure was expecting the same treatment in his "native" Scotland. There's some more bad news for him this morning, though - 64% of Scots oppose his plans.

The Highland Clearances live long and hard in our collective memories. To see an incoming millionaire try to do the 21st Century equivalent sticks in the throat of many.